Candy House

Candy House — Plot

Sakurai Taro’s parents died young. His grandmother, Akiko, has been making great effort to protect her struggling candy store, Sakuraya, in the old part of Tokyo, but it's not easy. Taro eats candy with regular customers such as chilhood friend Saegusa Hiroki who aspires to be a scriptwriter, and talk nonsense, like in their youth. However, they realize this unfettered, comfortable existence will end some day with the passage of time. Then Taro’s ex-classmate, Kimura Reiko, comes back home with her son after a divorce. He and his friends start to notice what is truly important to them as they face up to their pasts, dreams and pains.

• Release date
• October 21, 2015
• Runtime
• 25 min
• TMDB score
• 8

Candy House — Cast

Joe Odagiri Sakurai Taro Machiko Ono Kimura Reiko Kaoru Yachigusa Sakurai Akiko Ryo Katsuji Saegusa Hiroki Kyusaku Shimada Shimasaki Akira